Pig Industry News: Denmark

23 August 2017

Danish Crown Signs MoU with Alibaba Group’s TmallDENMARK - Yesterday, the world’s largest pork exporter Danish Crown signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tmall, one of Alibaba Group’s business-to consumer e-marketplaces in China, at a ceremony...

Danish Pig Breeding Herd Still Edging UpDENMARK - The number of sows in Denmark has increased again based on data from the 1 July pig survey. This follows the small year on year increase in the 1 April pig count, according to Leo Colby, AHDB...

New Jobs in Danish CrownDENMARK - The increase in the supply of pigs to Danish Crown’s abattoirs can be ascribed to the combined effects of Danish Crown’s own growth package, the subsidy scheme for new housing units and the...

Danish Pig Breeding Herd Moving UpDENMARK - The number of sows in Denmark is increasing again, according to data from the 1 April pig survey, writes Leo Colby, AHDB Consultant....

05 May 2017

600,000 New Pigs for Danish CrownDENMARK - In future, the around 60 members of Bonusgrisen will deliver their animals to Danish Crown. Thus, they will be among the first to benefit from Danish Crown’s new financial contribution for...

03 May 2017

Danish Crown Launches Ambitious Growth PackageDENMARK - The demand for Danish pork is unabated on the key export markets. Therefore, Danish Crown is now launching a growth package to encourage farmers to invest in producing more pigs....

15 March 2017

Danish Crown Sells Plumrose USADENMARK - Danish Crown has signed an agreement to sell its American subsidiary Plumrose USA to Brazilian-based JBS, which is the world’s largest meat-processing company. The sale is based on the 4WD...

Antibiotic Free Pork - Catching on in DenmarkDENMARK - More and more people are getting alarmed that many infections are not responding to antibiotics. There is a shortage of new antibiotics and many people are also concerned that too many antibiotics...

Danish Pig Herd in DeclineDENMARK - The number of pigs in Denmark on 1 October was four per cent lower than a year before, according to new figures from Statistics Denmark....

07 November 2016

Danish Crown to Raise Price Paid to Pig ProducersDENMARK - Danish Crown is making an ambitious promise to owners in order to encourage producers to slaughter pigs in Denmark. Between now and 2021, the company will be raising the settlement price paid...

New Pork Label Shows Level of Animal WelfareDENMARK - A new Ministry of Environment and Food animal welfare label, which is being launched in Denmark next spring, will allow shoppers to identify the level of welfare the pig received....

02 September 2016

New CEO Hopes to Turn Tulip AroundDENMARK - Steve Francis has been appointed as the new CEO of Tulip Ltd. He brings with him extensive experience from the meat industry and of restructuring and turning around manufacturing companies....

Danish Breeding Herd Still ShrinkingDENMARK - Provisional figures from the 1 July pig census showed that the number of pigs fell at the start of Q3 2016 versus the same period a year earlier, by 3 per cent, to 12.3 million head....